linux-kernel - Re: [take33 10/10] kevent: Kevent based AIO (aio_sendfile()/aio_sendfile

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Message-ID: <20070117143950.GA19434@2ka.mipt.ru>
Date:	Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:39:51 +0300
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
To:	Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Chase Venters <chase.venters@...entec.com>,
	Johann Borck <johann.borck@...sedata.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@...erus.ca>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [take33 10/10] kevent: Kevent based AIO (aio_sendfile()/aio_sendfile_path()).

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 07:21:42PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya (suparna@...ibm.com) wrote:
> 
> Since you are implementing new APIs here, have you considered doing an
> aio_sendfilev to be able to send a header with the data ?

It is doable, but why people do not like corking?
With Linux less than microsecond syscall overhead it is better and more
flexible solution, doesn't it?

I'm not saying - 'no, there will not be any *v variants', just getting
more info.

> Regards
> Suparna

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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